- selja
- push* * *I)(sel, selda, seldr), v.1) to hand over, deliver;selja e-m e-t (Ásta selr honum sverðit);selja e-t í hendr e-m, to make over to one (hann seldi búit í hendr Þorsteini);selja vápn ór hendi sér, to give up (deliver) one’s weapons;selja e-t fram, to deliver up;selja e-m e-t til varðveizlu, to commit to another’s keeping (þér skulut nú selja mér til varðveizlu vápn yður);hann kvazt hvárki vildu selja grið né taka, he said that he would neither give nor receive pardon;selja e-m laun, to give reward, pay;selja fé at láni, to lend money;selja á leigu, to put out at interest;selja á frest, to give on credit;2) to sell, part with (hann seldi land sitt);selja e-t við litlu (miklu) verði, to sell for a small (great) sum;selja mansali, to sell into bondage;þótti þeim konungr út seldr, a done man (= fram seldr);3) refl., seljast, to give oneself up (seljast arfsali);seljast út, to turn out;aldri mun þat vel út seljast, it will never go well.II)f. sallow, willow.* * *u, f. [A. S. seal; Engl. sallow; Swed. sälg; Dan. sælje; North. E. and Scot. saugh]:—a sallow, a willow, salix capraea, Edda (Gl.), Pr. 473, Lex. Poët.; kirkjan á alla smá-reka, rætr allar ok seljur, Pm. 69. selju-tré, n. a willow-tree, Ám. 111.II. [selja the verb], a female dealer, whence freq. in poët. circumlocutions of a woman, Edda 68, Lex. Poët.III. the name of an island in Norway; whence Selju-menn, the saints of Selja; Seljumanna-messa, -vaka, see messa, Bs., N. G. L.; for the story see Fms. i.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.